I hope it's true

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Bad news for you...... The Mayan calendar didn't figure in Leap Year. This fact has allowed us to bypass their date by approximately 7 months.


Whoops... someone beat me to it!
Never mind!
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY"]R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World - YouTube[/ame]
 
I think we should keep in mind that the only people who don't seem to be worried or thinking at all about this are the Mayans.
 
I'll let you guys know how it's going up here in Canada on the 22nd...

If I don't post assume the worst...
 
It is true that there's no leap day in the Mayan solar calendar. However, this is not the calendar that some people are using to predict the end of the world; the Mayans used a long-count calendar for extremely long periods of time. The concept of leap-years is irrelevant to this calendar system, because it's not based on solar years, simply on math.

You know how we use a base-10 counting system? (10, 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.) The Mayans used a modified base-20 counting system for keeping track of days - the second cycle went up to 18 rather than 20. So they tracked days in cycles of 20, 360, 7200, 144000, 2880000, etc.

We're coming to the end of one of the 144,000 day cycles. Today (March 6, 2012) can be expressed at 12.19.19.3.10. This calendar will reach 12.19.19.17.19 on December 20, and then turn to 13.0.0.0.0 on December 21. This happens roughly every 400 years. No big deal.
 
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